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Silly me. I thought American colleges were bastions of free speech, where faculty and students believe in "the marketplace of ideas." Not at Haverford College, Smith College or Rutgers University. Each of these institutions of higher learning invited a prominent and respected person to deliver the commencement address this season. But some left-leaning faculty and students strenuously opposed the invitation because they did not like the person. So the speaker-to-be withdrew. Robert J. Birgeneau, former chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, was invited to deliver the commencement address at Haverford, the elite, private, co-ed liberal arts college near...

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